Fenwick Island Houses
July 9, 2010 by Jennifer
Filed under Architecture
A tour of the houses around Fenwick Island, Del. You’ll note that I’m not one for the huge McMansion-type beach houses that are going up everywhere — gigantic boxes on stilts. I’m drawn to the ones that are older, with a little more personality, which are a little more, well, LITTLE!
The person who lives in the house below told me that it was built during World War II. So, it’s showing its age, but there’s something so charming about it.
This “shabby shack” is behind the house above. Today, it’s a storage shed. But it used to serve as housing for the workers building houses here during the war.
These houses below are lovely, and have gardens to match.
Here’s the enticing pathway we take up to the beach, which I will leave you with, in addition to the work of some enterprising beach-goers. Have a great weekend!
Jennifer Sergent. Native Washingtonian. Former editor at Washington Spaces magazine and HGTV. Currently searching for – and writing about – DC’s design voices. Write to me @
These are great! Love that shed! My mom and I were just yesterday talking about the fact that the lake in the Western Mountains of NC where we spent every summer growing up….it used to be summer cottages where you could water ski all day and sit on the couch in your damp suit for a rest before showering and heading to the back deck for a BBQ or going down to the club in shorts and a T-Shirt for a quick bite…..now people are buying three lots and building multi-million dollar homes and the atmosphere and social events in the community just aren’t the same! Why does bigger always have to be better?
Great pictures and charming places. A smaller beach house with character is much better than a Mc Mansion!
Great post Jennifer! I grew up vacationing in Fenwick Island and totally concur about “beach shack’ love and abhor the big “starter castles” popping up everywhere. I still remember the knotty pine paneling and stash of damp board games inside the kitchen cupboards. And listening to the ocean with windows open- no AC. Seems like ages ago- it was!